The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01


would probably not be another one for
quarter of century or more.
THE men who want free trade are
those who have accumulated fortunes
in consequence of protective policy
and now are seeking to kick away the
ladder on which they climbed to the
pinnacle of success, to prevent others
from sharing in their prosperity" was
one of the good points made by Pro-
lessor r.. +. Thompson of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in his recent
lecture on protection before the Yale
students.
THE fear of socialism and anarchy
has the tendency in Chicago to make
good men act together. Six new judges
are to be elected in June, and the So
cialists have been boasting of their
ability to elect their own candidates.
To head off the possibility of any So
cialists' connection with the judiciary
the republican and democratic county
committees agreed upon three republic
can and three democratic candidates,
for whom both parties will vote, thus
securing tnelr election.
MORE of the everyday wickedness
of the world is heard of now, simply
because there are more papers and the
all-pervading telegraph to report it, In
the days of the fathers " there was as
much or more going on that was wrong
than now, but the fathers didn't pub
fish daily papers, and there was not a
telegraph Office and reporter in every
city, town and village. The news of
crime then hardly ever went beyond
the counties, and not half over the
states in which the deeds were COM
mitted.
A WASHINGTON letter says: " 1t may
not be many years before a woman will
be rare sight in department. Slowly
but surely they are being got rid of
under the civil service system. Since
Secretary Manning first took the treas
ury portfolio and the new order of
things was begun nearly twenty per
cent of the women have gone, and none
have come in their places. When a
female clerk dies or gets married, re-
signs or is dismissed, a requisition goes
to the civil service commission for a
man to fill the vacancy"
New HAMPSHIRE has got to pay dear
for her insurance if she depends on the
local companies. The old companies
before their withdrawal declared that
their losses in the state amounted to
more than their premiums. The local
companies estimate the losses of the
last seventeen months at 81 800, 900,
and propose to inspect rigidly and put
high rates on unprotected villages.
Such policy would be based on sound
principles, but it may be doubted if it
is agreeable to the people of the state
Springfield Republican.
THE New York Tribune makes a
good point when it says that the inter-
state commerce law, as doctored by the
commission, with the long and short
haul clauses suspended in the South
and enforced in the North, looks very
much like scheme to benefit the
former section at the expense of the
latter. Alabama iron is coming north
to the markets of Illinois and Iowa, for
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ton than Pennsylvania and Ohio pro-
ducers must pay. Obviously this is
gross injustice. Cleveland Leader.
THE mugwump faction is made up
almost entirely of anti-protectionists
and English free-traders, and to win
them back" in accordance with the
ideas of the Independent, we should
ignore the sentiment and principles
of the main body of the republican
party, and find " man of the right
sort " in the ranks of the free. traders
or questionable or uncertain tariff men
But this would be a reversal of the
philosophical theory of Lord Dun,
dreary, and would prove, after all, but
silly attempt to wag the dog by the
strength of the tail-Cor. of Rutland
Herald.
DIR. Deems has solved the problem
of the war. With logic that is more
novel than cogent he proves that it was
the inevitable result of " climatic influ
ences," which so differentiated thu
North from the South that they were act
ually compelled to fight, don't you know
Why, it is as plain as pike-staff, anC
the wonder is that so simple and self
evident proposition has never beer
visible to the naked eye until now
OF course! The whole difficulty was
caused by the wet season of the NORTH
coming into contact with the sum,
South and creating spontaneous com
bustion.-NeW York Herald.
No one disputes the right of work
men to combine for mutual protection
Sensible people know that what is GOO
for laborers is good for all, and ar
therefore for unionism if it helps tn
workmen. But the withdrawal of SOM
of the best organized unions of specia
trades from the jurisdiction of thu
Knights is recognition that to b,
merged in general union is not goot
for them. And it is not unfriendlines
to unionism which examines the in
adequacy of the forms of union, o
J which argues, from the increase of tn
warfare and from its destruction of tn
livelihood of the workmen, that some
thing is radically unsound.-Chcinnal
Commercial Gazette.
GREENFIELD, Mass, deserves to b
emblazoned on the pages of moder
? history as a generous town. AT
5 special meeting it voted not to prose